One Step Forward: Four Tips for Relapse Prevention

Recovery is a long and tedious process. It takes a lot of willpower and work to be able to shake off your addiction. After going through such a long process of recovery, relapsing is not something you want to experience so you have to go through the entire recovery process again.

If you want avoid relapse, know what people will lead you back to your addiction, know your relapse signs, leave your old habits behind, and believe in yourself to be able to pull through.

Know Your People

A major setback that can cause many addicts to relapse is being around family and friends that fuel their habit. If you stay around people that indulge in your addiction, give you money for your addiction, or attempt to get you to go back to your old addiction, you need to leave them behind.

The US Department of Education conducted an experiment wherein they found 85 percent of adolescents entering addiction treatment in the United States begin regular use of alcohol and other drugs before the age of 15. This means that there are many people out there that can hinder your progress in recovery.

Make sure you stay clear of the people on drugs that would influence you to continue your addiction. You don’t want people in your life that don’t support your recovery. If you stay with them, it is more likely you will relapse.

Know Your Signs

Being optimistic about your ability to recover will help to prevent relapse.

Many addicts have their own personal signs of when they feel the need to relapse. Understand who you are and the things you usually do before you feel the need to partake in your addiction. If you can understand your body and its reactions, it is easier to stop yourself in your tracks before you start snowballing back into your addiction.

Leave Old Habits Behind

If your old hangouts and hobbies include places and things that make it easy to have access to your addiction, you should probably start looking toward finding new hobbies and hangouts.

You don’t want to be around things that make your drug accessible to you. Temptation is a killer for addicts attempting to avoid relapse. Change up the way the old you operated and you are sure to keep your new you free from addiction.

Believe in Yourself

Believing in yourself is important in your journey for relapse prevention. The mind is a powerful thing and staying optimistic and thinking that you won’t go back to your addiction is a great outlook to have that will help increase your willpower.

If you go toward your recovery with a negative attitude it makes it more likely that you will give up or go back to your addiction. Simply thinking that you have what it takes to make it through the trying times of recovery can make it feel easier to fight addiction.

As described by the US Department of Health and Human Services, recovery is a process of making it through stages and that if a person is not aware of their progression during each stage, they will relapse. This is why it is important to believe and pay attention to yourself.

If you are trying to avoid relapsing, avoid people and places that could influence your old addiction. Understand yourself so you know your signs and so you can believe that you really have what it takes to defeat this. If you feel as though you are struggling with your recovery don’t be afraid to call 800-584-3274 today to make sure you stay healthy and happy in your recovery.

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